In your body I heard rivers sing their way to the ocean, your heartbeat the pounding surf. You came unannounced out of the night’s dream like morning dew. Now the wind shouts your name, you are the reason of my evening song. Stars of the night shine in your eyes and I—alive in your dream […]
Poetry Corner: James Garrett “Just Once More”
He was good in his time, very good. Now his time was past as time should. He tried again once more to show, The skill and strength once his to know. The younger player, quick and strong, Taking the place it was his to belong. The older one wanting to show this bunch. To show […]
Poetry Corner: Bud Light “Then…Now…And Maybe”
Like the tall men of fortune Who ride on yesterday’s goodbye I stand beside the gates of time Waiting for tomorrow’s first hello. As the new warmth begins to fade Beyond the hills of fear, I’ll run as close to the edge of love As my tired dreams allow. Please, then, if you will, Extend […]
Poetry Corner: Ranjit Gill “I Wonder”
I wonder why I often think about the past Tryna make the memories last but alas, I can’t live like that I keep thinking what I should have done and should have been I wonder if things woulda been different. Life zooms by then you die. WHY?
Poetry Corner: Katrina Monore “Heart Hurt (After the Devastation)”
Floods, earthquakes, and fire, tornadoes and storms conspire to bear down on humanity, possible revenge for its treatment of Mother Earth. The stench of destruction moves through air spreading its message of despair across neighborhoods and continents. Perplexed people in tears gazing to heaven asking why, eyes blinded to the deeper tragedy. Know that this […]
Poetry Corner: Carol Pearlman “The Revolution in Cuba”
I stepped out of my shoes took off my skirt and shirt and laid them next to the bent antenna on the dusty, broken TV set that faced the wall of peeling faded wallpaper. A four-pronged plug lay belly up on the floor like a dead cockroach. He sat on the bed and with his […]
Poetry Corner: James Garrett “You Were There”
I awoke in the morning and you were there, With sleep-filled eyes and tousled hair. At work all day the job I share, Goes easily by because you are there. To hurry home to be with you, With a smile of love shining through. The two best loves in the world to share. When our […]
Poetry Corner: Deborah Silverman “Love and Climate Change”
Love didn’t rush through us like a drenching storm riding the jet stream. It hinted its arrival on a fresh, ordinary day – a day of no cognizance of weather or love, when a Chevy was for cruising and schmoozing and catching the latest flick at the drive-in. Love drizzled lightly into awareness sharing burgers […]
Poetry Corner: D.L. Lang “Love Poetry Capital Blockade”
On the way to the love poetry awards at the Historical Museum today, we were met at the railroad crossing by a one car police blockade. We circled around Industrial Way with its refinery fumes, pipelines, and towering knotted highways. Every road that we attempted greeted us with large fences, big trees, or dead end […]
Poetry Corner: Cathy Dana “When She Comes to Me”
She comes to me in my dreams sometimes. Like last night— Jim and I traveling on foot like refugees, or pilgrims amidst so many others searching, hoping to find—what? We weren’t home, weren’t on familiar turf, there were open-air markets, tents and camps. I was standing on the path, a dirt road. Out of the […]